One's love dead with spouse starting quarantines? (8)
I believe the answer is:
isolates
'quarantines?' is the definition.
(quarantine is a type of isolation)
'one's love dead with spouse starting' is the wordplay.
'one' becomes 'I' (Roman numeral).
'love dead with' becomes 'lates' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'spouse' becomes 'SO' (abbreviation for significant other).
'starting' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'lates' after 'so' is 'solates'.
'i'+'solates'='ISOLATES'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for isolates that I've seen before include "Keeps apart from others" , "Oils seat (anag.)" , "Places apart or alone" , "Sets apart from others" .)